The hull is now turned over ( with the help of about seven friends ) and placed in a level, well-braced position.

Traveling all night, Clark and twelve men arrived at about seven o'clock May 22.

It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.

The Navy numbers about 2, 500 and operates seven small patrol craft and barges.

That genus contains about four to seven subgenera.

The collection contains about one thousand examples and are divided into seven rooms called Masks of the World, Mexico across History, The Huichols and the Jaguar, Alebrijes and Dances of Guerrero, Devils and Death, Identity and Fantasy, and Afro-Indian masks.

Bypassing station seven to save time, Young and Duke arrived at station eight on the lower flank of Stone Mountain, where they sampled material on a ray from South Ray Crater for about an hour.

Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times, and there is a longstanding debate about his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.

In 1944 the Brazilian Air Force joined Allied forces in Italy and operated there for about seven months, this was the FAB baptism in a real conflict.

In 1956, the " Essentials of an Adequate Diet " brought recommendations which cut seven down to four groups that school children would learn about for decades.

Colombia has about 60 television stations, including seven low-power stations.

Cetaceans can remain under water for much longer periods than most other mammals, ( about seven to 30 minutes, varying by species ) due to large physiological differences.

The chimpanzee's genus, Pan, diverged from the gorilla's genus about seven million years ago.

In 1667, when Defoe was probably about seven years old, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked Chatham.

) Traditionally, opposite sides of a die add up to seven, implying that the 1, 2 and 3 faces share a vertex ; these faces may be placed clockwise or counterclockwise about this vertex.

The Demiurge, having received a portion of power from his mother, sets about a work of creation in unconscious imitation of the superior Pleromatic realm: He frames the seven heavens, as well as all material and animal things, according to forms furnished by his mother ; working however blindly, and ignorant even of the existence of the mother who is the source of all his energy.

He may not have lived as long as we wanted him to, but he survived about seven lifetimes, including being perhaps the biggest rock star of his time.

It survives in seven main manuscripts, written down from about 1300 to about 1600.

The process also means that Finland is growing about seven square kilometres yearly as land emerges from the sea.

This means that southern portions of the country are snow-covered about three to four months of the year and the northern, about seven months.

One of the most noticed and best reviewed films of 2010 was the drama Of Gods and Men ( Des dieux et des hommes ), about the Assassination of seven monks in Tibhirine, Algeria.

Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

He was about 50 years old.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

( Two years ago the photography editor of Vogue Magazine titled his article about Steichen, `` The World's Greatest Photographer ''.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

Stephens had written his classic `` incidents of travel '' about these regions a hundred years before, and Catherwood, who had studied Piranesi in London and the great ruins of Egypt and Greece, had drawn the splendid illustrations that accompanied the text.

To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

This is a black swamp clay in which about one hundred million years ago cypress-like trees were growing.

Mr. Jack had said, `` You look about fifteen years old ''.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

It occurred to me that you might be interested in some thoughts which I expressed privately in recent years, in the hope of clearing up a certain confusion in the public mind about what foreign policy is all about and what it means, and of developing a certain compassion for those who are carrying such responsibilities inside Government.

It was recognized years ago that the transition from daytime to nighttime propagation conditions, and vice versa, is not an instantaneous process, but takes place over periods of time from roughly 2 hours before sunset until about 2 hours after sunset, and again from roughly 2 hours before sunrise until some 2 hours after sunrise.

Terms range from one to five years and the interest rates and down payments run about the same as for automobiles.

In this organization, about half of the engineers with 15 or more years of employment are in supervision, engineering or elsewhere.

Fran and he had met about two years after she had arrived in Manhattan from Nebraska, or was it Wyoming??

`` Oh yes, the other day I reread some of Emerson's English Traits, and there was an anecdote about a group of English and Americans visiting Germany, more than a hundred years ago.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

The radial velocity varies inversely as the particle size -- a 1000-m-diameter particle near the orbit of Mars would reach the sun in about 60 million years.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.